Do you ever wonder if you are getting to the place you
are aiming for or if you are just treading water? I'm a
goal oriented person (GOP). I see something down
the road and I work to get there. I try to see the logic
al steps between point A and point C.

But some days it seems you have to feel like you aren't
getting anywhere to actually realize where you are
going.

You need downtime to realize you are having uptime.

Father, I wrote code today. Lots of code. And I got paid
for it. Actually, what people pay for software is amazing.
Open source is as amazing as the fact people will pay
us to do something we love.

Okay, not everyone loves the pressure that goes with
technology jobs, but some people look at it as a
challenge. I believe, truly believe, the future will bring
much more interesting challenges and that's a good
reason to stay in the game. I don't know about you but
my mind needs to be stimulated more than a lot of the
people I seem to talk to. Filling out forms all day does
not make work interesting. Dealing with problems I've
never even knew existed and needing to get it done
ASAP is interesting.

Still working on the internal/external use project. Found
out that the company credit card network had some
information that was setup improperly by a third party.
Luckily, I corrected the problem before any clients used
it.

Incompetence can be frustrating.

Otherwise, just trucking along. Same old, same old. Nothing
to see here.

It's been busy. I've been trying to work on some new
software which is going to be used for internal (desktop)
and external (e.g., online) use. It's not a project I am
really enjoying because there are a lot of more interesting
problems I could be working on but it's a necessary evil.

Life:

Things are fine here. Not much to really tell, I've been
hacking when I get the chance and spending time with
various family and friends.

Work has been going well. Mainly just fixing minor issues,
adding better error handling, and adding features. I will
probably be travelling in a bit to sell to clients
the products I've lead the development and architecture on.

Well, it has been a bit. In the time since the last
posting, the company has launched its e-business services
that I, as the chief architect, designed and built. It is
amazing to see your project actually get to the clients.
The response has been incredible and things are going much
faster than we originally anticipated.

Sure, I didn't get all the features into this release as I
may have wanted (beware feature creep!), and I wish the
testing period could have
been as long as the development period. But the fact is,
those two issues and many others are always there, and you
need to get products out the door.

A decision has to be made to switch things from our current
servers to the new servers. I was hoping it would be
finalized today but that doesn't look likely to happen.
Which is too bad, as the sooner they get real life hits the
better.